Robert Richard Price

PRICE, BONNEMANN, WHITE, DONOVAN, GILLASPY, PARKER, NELSON

Posted By: Barb Kelley - Volunteer
Date: 4/8/2006 at 10:01:37

The Clinton Herald
Published: April 05, 2006 12:29 pm

Robert R. Price

Visitation: 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Lemke Funeral Homes, South Chapel, 2600 Lincoln Way, Clinton.

SERVICES: 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

DEARY, Idaho — Robert Richard Price, 88, of Deary and formerly of Clinton, died Sunday at the Veterans’ Affairs Medical Hospital, Spokane, Wash.

Interment will be in the Clinton Lawn Cemetery.

He was born Sept. 10, 1917, in Clinton to Richard C. and Mary Bonnemann Price. He married Maxine White in September 1939. He and his wife lived in Council Bluffs and then moved to San Francisco.

He graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School, Council Bluffs.

He served in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Bexar on medical mission in Japan during World War II.

He was a policeman in Council Bluffs. He also was a machinist with the Chicago and Northwestern, Council Bluffs, and later Union Pacific railroads in Omaha.

He moved to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, after retirement. He moved to the Bestland Retirement Community before moving to Deary in 2000 to live with his daughter.

Survivors include one sister, Marian Donovan of St. Paul, Minn.; children, Sherryl (Roger) Gillaspy of Post Falls, Idaho, LaNore (Rodney) Parker of Deary, Marilyn Nelson of Riverside, Mo., and Richard (Penny) Price of Deer Park, Wash.; nine grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and nephews, nieces and cousins.

He was preceded in death by one brother and one sister.

Death date: April 2, 2006